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Calculated Ionization Energy for SiC (silicon monocarbide)

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Experimental Ionization Energy is 9.2 ± 0.4 eV
Please note! These calculated ionizataion energies have the vibrational zero-point energy (zpe) included, but the zpe has NOT been scaled. Click on an entry for more details, including the ionization energy with a scaled zpe.
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Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with predefined basis sets
semi-empirical PM3  
composite G4 10.175

Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
hartree fock HF     9.491           9.548       11.077
density functional BLYP     9.199                    
B3LYP                 10.535        
B3LYPultrafine                       10.521  
M06-2X   10.541 10.492                    
PBE1PBE     10.494                    
HSEh1PBE 9.224   10.481 10.489             10.470    
TPSSh     10.425 10.497     10.408       10.472    
wB97X-D   10.638 10.541 10.616   10.617     10.614 10.616 10.591 10.595  
B97D3 9.535   9.449 9.527   9.530   9.517 9.516   9.485 9.491  
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2     10.270   10.396       10.416        
MP2=FULL                       10.301  
MP3=FULL     9.504 10.499                  
MP4                     10.865    
B2PLYP     10.364               10.507    
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G* 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVTZ daug-cc-pVTZ

Ionization Energies in eV
Methods with effective core potentials (select basis sets)
CEP-31G CEP-31G* CEP-121G CEP-121G* LANL2DZ SDD cc-pVTZ-PP aug-cc-pVTZ-PP Def2TZVPP
hartree fock HF                 11.056
density functional B3LYP                 10.520
PBEPBE                 9.480
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2                 10.306
For descriptions of the methods (AM1, HF, MP2, ...) and basis sets (3-21G, 3-21G*, 6-31G, ...) see the glossary in section I.C. Predefined means the basis set used is determined by the method.